Waldheim's book Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory presents the case for looking at the city through landscape. The book is praised as “timely and fascinating” by Jonathan Kendall, a judge for the National Urban Design Awards, who continues: “A compelling overview of internationally-recognised urbanists, landscape architects and architects whose practices share a common underpinning in their relationship to nature and ecological systems in the broadest sense.”

The National Urban Design Awards celebrate the best in urban design practice including writers, students, publishers, and others in the industry. The 2017 winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on March 2, 2017.